Does counting emotion words on online social networks provide a window into people's subjective experience of emotion? A case study on facebook

Emotion

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 97-107

  Kross, Ethan ^a   Verduyn, Philippe ^b,c   Boyer, Margaret ^a   Drake, Brittany ^a   Gainsburg, Izzy ^a   Vickers, Brian ^a   Ybarra, Oscar ^a   Jonides, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Big data; Emotion; Facebook; LIWC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; THEORETICAL STUDY; YOUNG ADULT; CASE REPORT; ECOLOGICAL MOMENTARY ASSESSMENT; EMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ECOLOGICAL MOMENTARY ASSESSMENT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL NETWORKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85044871249     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/emo0000416     Document Type: Article

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